Word: roughs
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Fearing such an impulse as "mere anarchy," W.B. Yeats foresaw a Second Coming not long before 1923, in which the world would be devoured by a "rough beast." Yet the impulse was not necessarily anarchic, although things could turn out that way. It was the dream of self-fulfillment. As a goal, self-fulfillment was hardly the 20th century's invention. The European Romantics of the early 1800s had loudly proclaimed the primacy of the individual, the glories of revolution and similar disruptive ideas that have carried forward, with a few halts and alterations, from their time to ours...
...Even the initial estimates of force to be negotiated were in dispute. The West estimated Warsaw Pact and Russian combined troop strength at approximately 925,000. NATO's at 777,000. However, Russia claimed rough parity at the lower level. Ten years later, the two sides have come no closer to aggreement on the data, that presumably would be a prerequisite for any final treaty...
Perhaps Sculley's most crucial long-term test will be his ability to work with Jobs, 28, the charismatic but sometimes mercurial chairman. Though the two have been conducting a public love feast, the going may get rough. Said one skeptic: "Everybody is a golden boy with Steve for six months." The chairman and the president have already differed over the management of some new projects...
...street performing, he said, "Not only is it good for cash flow... you're sharing your art with people who would never go to a concert hall." "Rough kids who only listen to rock music will stop and listen to Bach for 10 minutes," he added...
Most Marielitos have found life in the U.S. rough going. Many have only a halting command of English and few marketable skills. Moreover, Cuba's cradle-to-grave welfare system left many refugees ill prepared for America's ways. "In Cuba the state takes care of you," says Artist Luis Valdés in the flawless English he learned listening to U.S. radio stations. "Here you have to struggle...